Anakainosis is the Greek word for “renewing” that hails from
Romans 12:2. The definition Paul was using here was “an adjustment of
the moral and spiritual vision .” (W.E. Vines Dictionary)
What a beautiful alternative to our Standard English understanding.
We believe that through the Word of God and the Holy Spirit that
dwells in us this adjustment is truly possible
PROGRAM SUMMARY
The sinful mentality generally operates out of what psychiatrists and psychologists have termed
Closed Channel thinking. Closed Channel, to the sinner, is an automatic irresponsible thinking error.
Many people operate in these errors. However, the habitual sinner takes them to the point of making
victims. This Closed Channel blocks out critical knowledge and information that must be considered
during a responsible decision-making process. Satan utilizes as the real culprit behind bad choices and
irresponsible behavior. It is also society’s most dangerous enemy in the war against crime, deeply
hidden in the dark recesses of the sinner’s mind.
What makes sin so difficult to treat is that it is actually programmed
to defend itself against any and all accountability.
What does this mean? Well, as one continually explores the forbidden through their sinfulness,
patterns begin to take root in the brain, and these patterns become over time the standard for the way one
thinks. These standards can be highly dysfunctional in society. As well, these standards begin to self-preserve, protecting the individual from anything that would tempt to thwart what the individual is engaging in. A power-control-excitement cycle is now reinforced in the mind and grows exponentially.
The abnormal becomes the norm.
This faith-based model is highly based upon of the accuracy of the information proffered through the
extensive clinical research and writings of Drs. Samuel Yochelson & Stanton Samenow (The Criminal
Personality- Volumes 1 & 2). This was the genesis for the secular-based program known as
D.I.R.E.C.T. (Direct Involvement Reduced the Effects of Criminal Thinking). We have taken this
secular research, paralleled it alongside the Word of God; which is the priority in the Christian’s life,
and are now excited to offer the church body. This adaptation to the D.I.R.E.C.T. Program now directly
targeting our sinful habits.
It is only by the Christian’s belief, faith, and steadfast desire that the Holy Spirit can activate and
assist the individual in transforming their minds. This transformation spoken of in Romans 12:2 comes
by the renewing of the mind; a dehabituating of old ways of life and a rehabituation of new patterns
of life (Ephesians 4:22-23). Of course, this all starts in the thinking. It is always about the thinking.
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